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In the nomineeship file of Alanya, prepared for Unesco Cultural Heritage of the world, some of its characteristics stated are as follows:
The Citadel of Alanya itself is a piece of cultural and historical heritage with its walls of nearly 6.5 kilometres. The City in the Citadel was the winter capital of Anatolian Selcuk's State in the Middle Ages.
The Citadel, some parts of which are the museum and where some excavations have been carried out, is still inhabited today. The Citadel is an area of preservation and a construction plan has been applied for that reason.
The Dockyard of Alanya, which is a part of the citadel, has been the only one left by Selcuks and it has remained in good condition. It had an important place in the Mediterranean geography during the medieval times.
There are 420 cisterns in the citadel of Alanya. Evliya Çelebi, one of the Ottoman wanderers in the 17th century, described Alanya as 'the city of cisterns' in his work, Seyahatname. Many of them are still used today.
The sea caves of the citadel are under preservation, being natural beuties.
The peninsula, where the citadel is located on and the little sea caves nearby have been shelters for the Mediterranean seals that face the danger of extiction worldwide.
Centaurea Scopulorum, known as cornflower in public, is an endemic plant growing on the walls of the citadel and rocky areas. It blooms in April and it only grows in the citadel of alanya.
The Hora of the citadel has also been home of sixteen plants of endemic kind.
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